My yahoo email account has been hacked and some of my contacts have been receiving strange emails. How do I stop this from happening? Thanks!

Ben S

March 22, 2014 at 6:38 pm

I also strongly recommend enabling 2-step verification for your Yahoo! account. Follow this guide to easily set this up. Instead of just a password, your account will require a code texted to your phone or a code generated by an app. This will keep your account much more secure than just a password.

Tim

February 21, 2014 at 5:34 pm

Change your password immediately, and it will likely stop immediately.

pam

February 21, 2014 at 11:32 pm

Thanks Tim, I did try that but still my contacts are receiving strange emails. I will probably set up a new email account.

Susendeep D

February 24, 2014 at 3:33 pm

For those strange emails,mark them as spam so that next time,they will land directly to spam folder.

I think Yahoo did a real good job by keep on tracking IP Address to protect users like us. The best thing we can do is to make sure that you - Set up your second sign-in verification or Secret Questions. If you want to keep it toooo easy, just set you Secret Questions and have a complex password having upper case, lower case, number and special chars.